Best Lore-Rich games on PC
These games place substantial fictional history, characters, and setting details around their main action. They span shooters, online RPGs, open-world adventures, Souls-like games, and turn-based combat, so the tag describes depth of worldbuilding rather than one gameplay style.
- Extensive setting and backstory
- Story connected to worldbuilding
- Mostly action-oriented gameplay
Related: Story Rich, RPG, Fantasy, Atmospheric
1,099 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Demo THE VIG
Live-action revenge adventure with office politics and branching story paths
90% positive
522 reviews
Demo Athanasy
Biopunk horror visual novel set in a sunless underground city
97% positive
521 reviews
Skelethrone: The Prey
A free, side-scrolling metroidvania with Souls-like combat and boss battles
77% positive
Free
Happy's Humble Burger Barn
First-person fast-food simulation with horror behind the counter
91% positive
Free
夏末白夜
Visual novel mystery about a high school rumor of August 32
95% positive
510 reviews
Demo TOUQI
A psychological horror visual novel with detective and word-game elements
89% positive
502 reviews
Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey DX
Fantasy RPG about crafting and exploring before an alchemy exam
73% positive
500 reviews
Growing My Grandpa!
Point-and-click horror about raising a strange creature in a basement
98% positive
490 reviews
98xx
Point-and-click horror inside a glitching retro computer desktop
81% positive
487 reviews
Space Trader: Merchant Marine
Space trading with first-person shootouts and bounty-hunting missions
54% positive
486 reviews
Demo Before The Night
Horror action-adventure where stealing flowers turns animal villagers into monsters
95% positive
486 reviews
Grail
Fantasy deckbuilding autobattler where your cards fight on their own
84% positive
484 reviews
GAME.exe
Single-player horror inside a secondhand computer and its unreleased game
83% positive
481 reviews
Demo Shadowveil: Legend of The Five Rings
Samurai roguelite strategy with card-equipped squads that fight automatically
74% positive
480 reviews
HORROR TALES: The Wine
First-person horror with puzzles and a stalker on your trail
77% positive
472 reviews
Demo Under The Island
Top-down action adventure with puzzles across an interconnected island
92% positive
471 reviews
Lugh World
Online creature-collecting RPG with island exploration and branching evolutions
67% positive
470 reviews
Demo Crown Gambit
Tactical card adventure about choosing who claims a contested throne
94% positive
463 reviews
100 hidden mice
A hidden-object search for mice in a hand-drawn laboratory
96% positive
462 reviews
Pomberito
First-person horror combining farm chores with South American folklore
93% positive
452 reviews
FOUNTAINS
Soulslike action RPG with tough combat and interconnected exploration
84% positive
451 reviews
Demo The Simen Rumors
A horror visual novel built around misleading the reader
79% positive
446 reviews
Ruff Ghanor
Fantasy roguelite deckbuilder where allies bring their own card decks
85% positive
443 reviews
qualia
Text-based psychological horror about distinguishing humans from artificial intelligence
92% positive
Free